10 Tips for Songwriters – Second Edition

An Open Letter to 10 Tips for Songwriters Authors

Dear Songwriters,

It’s been a year since our little collaborative ebook went online with moderate success.

After kicking the idea around on the http://www.fawm.org forums, I’ve decided to publish a second, far awesomer edition.

Are you in?

If so, here’s the plan:

1. Previous contributors. You may change your contribution as you see fit – leave it alone, make some typographical changes (There are some errors in the first edition that need revising – please have a lookat your entry), write a completely new set of tips, or create one bonus second edition tip. Up to you!

2. New contributors. I assume you’ve had a look at the first edition. Now’s the time for you to have a go at writing your own 10 tips.

3. Dedicated website and newsletter. The book will of course remain free, but this time round I’m going to create a dedicated website for the book so we can have an accompanying blog.

I’d also like to create a mailing list with a bi-monthly newsletter – the idea with this is to update people with 10 tips related news eg. new releases by the authors. To this end I’m thinking of either a. offering the ebook free with an email address or b. Offering the book downloadable free with no strings attached, but collecting email for people who want to download a bonus version – eg. book plus audio extras (or summink).

4. I’ve lots of other ideas, like a compilation album of authors songs plus some spoken word tips, or a 10 tips podcast of some sort – but I haven’t fleshed those out yet. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the above and anything else you think is relevent (or irrelevent but interesting).

Yours

Tom Slatter

tomslattermusic AT gmail.com